In the 60s, and for decades after, almost all US television drama series relied on a weekly reset button, so as to make any series suitable for repeating in almost any order should it reach syndication. ![]() This is not to Star Trek’s demerit, it is simply what US television series were like in this era. The series was essentially an anthology programme with returning characters. There were no sequels, no real ongoing plotlines, no real forward motion. The Enterprise did not revisit a single planet onscreen at any point in the three years it spent on air. ![]() In the whole of the original Star Trek television series only one character who was not an Enterprise crewmember, Harry Mudd, appeared more than once. ![]() ![]() 'Sins of the Father' is a turning point in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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